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PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVE M. HEOIITMAN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

EFFERVESCENT BEVERAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,738, datedSeptember 20, 1892.

Application filed November 14, 1890. Renewed July 14, 1892. Serial No.440,036. (No specimens.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVE M. HEOHTMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at YVashington, District of Columbia, have invented a new anduseful Effervescent Beverage, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful composition of matter to beused as a beverage.

My composition consists of the following ingredients combined in theproportions stated, viz: pure sugar, forty-eight pounds; water, onebarrel; raspberry-juice, eleven ounces; tartaric acid, nine ounces;citric acid, nine ounces; soap-bark, two to six ounces or one handful;caramel or coloring, fifteen ounces; cooking-raisins, forty-eightounces. These ingredients are to be thoroughly mingled by agitation incask or other receptacle.

To produce elfervescence in the above com pound the followingingredients are combined in these proportions: one and one-fourth poundspure honey and one gallon boiling water. Dissolve and allow mixture tostand until cool. Then add the whites of nine eggs, well beaten, and mixthe compound with the composition in cask or other receptacle.

I desire to state that the proportions in which the ingredients of theherein-mentioned composition are combined maybe varied, and that I amnot aware of any composition other than this in which all of theingredients in the proportions stated have been used together.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The herein-described composition of matter to be used as a beverage,consisting of pure sugar, Water, raspberry juice, tartaric acid, citricacid, soap-bark, caramel or coloring,and cooking-raisins, in theproportions desired, with a mixture to cause efiervescence, composed ofpure honey, boiling water, and the whites of nine eggs.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OLIVE M. IIEOI-ITMAN.

Witnesses:

OHAs. F. MALLARD, C. H. DOUGLAS.

